Internet Scavenger Hunt
Use your search skills to answer or locate the following. Record the URL
where you located the answer, the search engine you used, the search
technique you used, the time it took you to find the answer (to the nearest
minute), and answers/documents requested.
1. Locate an interactive math worksheet.
URL: http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=3
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: illuminations math
Time: 1 minute
Skill(s) Addressed: probability
2. What is the weather forecast for Ho Chi Minh City for Thursday, February 7?
URL:
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/WTS/2007/2/7/DailyHistory.html?r
eq_city=NA&req_statename=NA
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: Ho Chi Minh City weather
Time: 2 minutes
Forecast: high-91, low-71; partly cloudy
3. What percentage of the population 15 and over in Sop Choppy, Florida, has
never been married?
URL: http://www.city-data.com/city/Sopchoppy-Florida.html
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: “Sop Choppy, Florida + married population”
Time: 2 minutes
Percentage unmarried: 23.7%
4. On September 22 1776, Revolutionary War hero, Nathan Hale was hanged
by the British as a spy. What is he famous for saying just before he died?
URL: http://www.hartnet.org/als/nathanhale/homestead.htm
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: Nathan Hale
Time: 1 minute
Quote: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”
5. What does brain research tell us about physical movement and learning?
URL: http://www.alite.co.uk/information/brain_breaks.htm
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: Physical Movement and learning
Time: 2 minutes
Research findings: Physical movement increases oxygen in bloodstream
which leads to improved concentration. In addition, adding a movement or
physical action to a learning point will help recall.”
6. Locate a lesson plan for an interactive math lesson about tessellations.
URL:
http://www.shodor.org/interactive/activities/tessellate/?version=1.5.0_07&brow
ser=MSIE&vendor=Sun_Microsystems_Inc.
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: interactive tessellations
Time: 3 minutes
Name of lesson: Tessellate!
7. What civil rights advocate wrote her story in A Colored Woman in a White
World?
URL:
http://books.google.com/books?id=upO3AAAACAAJ&dq=A+colored+woman+in+
a+white+world
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: A Colored Woman in a White World
Time: 1 minute
Civil Rights Advocate: Mary Church Terrell
8. What child of a runaway slave was a football All-American and a wellknown actor and singer?
URL: http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/798/Paul_Roberson
_athlete_actor_singer_and_activist
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: child of slave all American football actor singer
Time: 1 minute
All-American football player: Paul Robeson
9. Locate a primary source document, battle map of Gettysburg, at the Library
of Congress
http://www.loc.gov
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/
Search Engine/Directory: library of congress
Search Technique: battle map of gettysburg
Time: 2 minutes
Paste a small version of the map here.
10. Locate a free text to speech reader online.
URL: http://sayzme.sourceforge.net
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: text to speech reader
Time: 1 minute
11. Locate an Edutopia article about school as a temple.
URL: http://www.edutopia.org/ getting-beyond-school-temple
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: Edutopia
Time: 1 minute
2 sentence summary: If the schools are the center of the community, then it
relates to a church being the center of a community. Community schools are
opened after school hours; they are places where students can gather.
12. Locate a video about global warming at
http://www.altavista.com/video/default
URL:
http://ge.ecomagination.com/site/index.html?kw=global%20warning&c_id=yglo
balwarming#algiers
Search Engine/Directory: AltaVista
Search Technique: global warming
Time: 3 minutes
13. Use Google Scholar to locate an article about Jean Piaget's Genetic
Epistemology.
URL: http://books.google.com/?hl=en&lr=&id=rrabb4T8ksC&oi=fnb&pg=PA1&dq=Jean+Piaget%27s+genetic+epistemology&ot
s=PsBHLDnzqs&sig=wr1IFUfTJZ7qwCt0n0lXQEUY1-0
Search Engine/Directory: Google Scholar
Search Technique: Jean Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology
Time: 1 minute
14. Locate a search engine that searches only dog sites.
URL: http??www.dogomania.com
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: dog only site search engine
Time: 1 minute
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most interesting: by doing a Google search you can find any statistics
about any town in the US
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most useful: interactive math activities on nctm's illuminations website
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most difficult: global warming video because not all titles were really
linked to videos about global warming